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From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stan Hu <stanhu@gmail.com>, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Subject: [PATCH RESEND] sane-ctype: fix compiler error on Amazon Linux 2
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:12:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250710-pks-ctype-v1-1-1db7e7568ea2@pks.im> (raw)

Compiling Git fails on Amazon Linux 2 when using GCC 7.3.1 with the
following compiler error:

    In file included from compat/posix.h:449:0,
                     from git-compat-util.h:26,
                     from daemon.c:3:
    compat/../sane-ctype.h:29:60: error: expected expression before ']' token
     #define sane_istest(x,mask) ((sane_ctype[(unsigned char)(x)] & (mask)) != 0)
                                                                ^
    compat/../sane-ctype.h:29:72: error: expected ')' before '!=' token
     #define sane_istest(x,mask) ((sane_ctype[(unsigned char)(x)] & (mask)) != 0)
                                                                            ^
    compat/../sane-ctype.h:29:60: error: expected expression before ']' token
     #define sane_istest(x,mask) ((sane_ctype[(unsigned char)(x)] & (mask)) != 0)
                                                                ^
    ... lots of similar lines ...

    compat/../sane-ctype.h:45:50: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before numeric constant
     #define toupper(x) sane_case((unsigned char)(x), 0)
                                                      ^
    /usr/include/ctype.h:142:12: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'int'
     extern int isascii (int __c) __THROW;
                ^
    compat/../sane-ctype.h:30:26: error: expected ')' before '&' token
     #define isascii(x) (((x) & ~0x7f) == 0)
                              ^
    compat/../sane-ctype.h:30:35: error: expected ')' before '==' token
     #define isascii(x) (((x) & ~0x7f) == 0)
                                       ^
    In file included from /usr/include/features.h:423:0,
                     from /usr/include/unistd.h:25,
                     from compat/posix.h:90,
                     from git-compat-util.h:26,
                     from daemon.c:3:
    compat/../sane-ctype.h:44:30: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before '(' token
     #define tolower(x) sane_case((unsigned char)(x), 0x20)
                                  ^
    compat/../sane-ctype.h:44:50: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before numeric constant
     #define tolower(x) sane_case((unsigned char)(x), 0x20)
                                                      ^
    compat/../sane-ctype.h:45:30: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before '(' token
     #define toupper(x) sane_case((unsigned char)(x), 0)
                                  ^
    compat/../sane-ctype.h:45:50: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before numeric constant
     #define toupper(x) sane_case((unsigned char)(x), 0)
                                                      ^

This error bisect back to 75a044f748 (git-compat-util.h: split out
POSIX-emulating bits, 2025-02-18), where lots of bits got split out of
"git-compat-util.h" into a new "compat/posix.h" header.

The compiler error isn't immediately obvious, doubly so because the
actual errors are ~3x as long as the above snippet. But what happens
here is that we transitively include <ctype.h> after we have included
our own "sane-ctype.h" header. Consequently, the function declarations
that exist in <ctype.h> for isascii(3p) et al will be mangled by our
macros of the same type. The result is of course completely broken.

It's unclear why this issue only happens on Amazon Linux 2. My guess is
that it's either specific to the compiler version or specific to the
glibc version. We don't explicitly include <ctypes.h> anywhere, but it's
being transitively included. So chances are that later versions of the
toolchain reorganized their headers so

             reply	other threads:[~2025-07-10  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-10  9:12 Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2025-07-10  9:14 ` [PATCH RESEND] sane-ctype: fix compiler error on Amazon Linux 2 Patrick Steinhardt
2025-07-10  9:26   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-07-10 10:17     ` Toon Claes
2025-07-10 21:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-11  7:56       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-07-11 15:11         ` Junio C Hamano

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